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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW; After spending $300,000 in constructing con-structing and completing telephone exchanges for Murray, Holiday and Midvale. the Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company has I Just announced that the Murray air' , Midvale exchanges will be ready to cut Into service on June 1. The Midvale exchange will not be completed com-pleted for two or three months yet. but will be put Into service immediately imme-diately upon its completion. Big cropB are predicted for Utah this year. Sugar beet planting has commenced commenc-ed at Delta. The final drive for sugar beet acreage is being made in Weber county. Figures show that the costs of mining and refining copper ' have increased to such an extent th;' both producers and refiners must have Increased price or maximum production can not be maintained. Henry Clews says Industries expand ex-pand with the advent of spring and a confident undertone Is felt in business. bus-iness. Three companies are soon to start drilling for oil near Salt Lake City The government has fixed a lead price of 7.091 cents. According to a report from Washington Wash-ington a general policy of stimulating stimulat-ing oil production is being initiated by the government to offset the tremendously tre-mendously increased demand for war purposes, which is not being equalled by growth in output. The Utah Construction company has been awarded the contract for building a million-dollar terminal for the Denver & Rio Grande at Soldier Sol-dier Summit. Building activity at Salt Lake City is not wholly stopped on account of the war. . The Gunnison Valley Sugar company com-pany factory in Sanpote county ; nearlng completion. Every citizen should fight for economy in city, county, and state government as a patriotic duty, and discourage all forms of freak and radical legislation as a hindrance to industrial development, the nation's need at present. Farmers at American Fork are Increasing In-creasing the beet acreage In this section. Salt Lake and Ogden business men went to Farmlngton to inspect the rig of the Union Oil & Gas Co., now installed in preparation for active ac-tive drilling operations. Utah Is to produce more oil than Wyoming. Such is the opinion of a well known operator who saw the Virgin field. A force of fifty to sixty men at Grantsvllle is now working at the new potash plant located near the Grant station on ' the Western Pacific, Pa-cific, near the shores of the Great Salt Lake. The plant Is scooping up the salty clays which compose that part of the lake shore, extracting extract-ing this valuable fertilizer. Sugar beet manufacturers are making heroic efforts to get the last possible acre of sugar beets planted and a farmer who can raise beets and won't is a worse slacker than a man who can buy bonds and won't. A manganese vein has been found In the Silver Island district, eighteen miles northwest of Wendover. A 400-ton oil shale plant is to be erected near Watson. It will be the first one in the state. The Dixie Oil company Is rushing plans for a skimming plant near Virgin. Fish Springs mill will be running in sixty days. It will treat dump at the rate of 200 tons daily, and ship concentrate. The Utah sulphur fields have been re-opened by easterners. " Deposits on the Millard-Beaver county line sold to Chicago capitalists by the Mormon church. Operations are to be commenced soon. Thos. A. O'Donnell, assistant to Oil Administrator Requa, at a recent re-cent address before the Denver oil men. afforded them real gratification gratifica-tion when he said that the fuel arf- ; ministration "will evenu;;'ly take i.n mpor'ant rart in furtii a sar- : i-.f' " -. settlement of th-3 di'Vulties I of oil men who are interested in leg- ; lslntion with congress." The April production at Tintic of 30,000 tons of ore is estimated at j $900,000. ! Utah subscribed one million over ; its bond quota. She stands officially official-ly as second in the reserve district and fifth in the nation on the third jloan. Public utilities make good record. Dugway will have a smelter of 250 tons dally capacity. Preliminary Prelimi-nary work of construction Is under way. Utility coxnpanUs hav ban lait to ask for increases in rates. Such increases are now necessary or else many companies will be ruined, service ser-vice cut, and general efficiency impaired. |